Emily Geen is a Canadian visual artist, currently based in Victoria BC on Canada’s west coast, completing her two-month Residency at MOMENTUM. During her time at MOMENTUM, Emily’s work has evolved in response to her encounters with the architectural history of Berlin, as well as to the character of its urban (and digital) landscape. Emily has further developed her practice of recording video through panes of semi reflective glass, creating a translucent, spatially contingent layering of imagery. Emily has also revisited her interest in analogue photography by shooting multiple exposure 35mm images of Berlin using a plastic toy camera. The amateur quality of the camera produces soft focus images and unpredictable results. She has been using it to photograph one of the first things she noticed upon arriving in Berlin: the towering exposed firewalls of many apartment buildings. Her interest in these was at first mainly an aesthetic one – she finds these voids of flatness amongst the otherwise richly layered urban landscape to be abrupt phenomenological pauses. Their potential as visual residue of Berlin’s volatile history is very compelling to Emily. In addition to these projects, she has begun implementing processes new to her practice which use Google Street View as a point of departure. It surprised Emily to find that while scrolling along the streets of Berlin on this virtual platform, that many of the homes and businesses are blurred out. Emily is interested in drawing aesthetic and conceptual parallels between the swaths of blurry self-censorship that pepper the streets of Berlin and the blank quality of the exposed firewalls.